At some point, it became the wee hours.
They are called that because y’know.
Your kidneys never stop filtering your blood. (Or else you have a bad time.)
I need to sleep. I do not wish to prepare my teeth for extended dental health.
My ortho-k lens has been irrevocably unpaired from its partner. Thus have I been relegated to suspended wire frame —-
Idfk. Glasses. I’m back to glasses and I hate it.
I know cocodamol “isn’t for” / “doesn’t work on” back pain, but fuck if it was torture getting to sleep last night or leaving bed without it this morning.
Like, nauseous level pain.
But you know: not “crying and screaming therefore it must not be severe”, according to anyone in the fucking A&E, from experience.
You compensate too well and you get punished for other people’s caged imaginations.
@MxVerda it took me having a breakdown in an a&e room to get them to give me a naproxen prescription for my chronic pain, and that was for a bone infection, which nothing really touched. Hope you're doing better soon
@Atatra Yeesh. I’ve not had that, but I’ve heard people talk about bone infections. I’m sorry you had to deal with that, too.
I know yada yada opioid crisis, but they should be the ones to know that leaving people in pain is just as (and sometimes more) disabling.
If I can’t sneak into medicine after training as a therapist, then I’ll at least nag every clinician I see as a patient about it when it’s remotely relevant.
@MxVerda not to be grim but it turns out if you're already living with chronic pain, you can convince yourself for an entire year that the pain of a bone infection is just normal wound healing pain, even after it doesn't close for an entire year and the guy who did the surgery scratches his head over and over at why it's not healing
@MxVerda bloody hell, i'm sorry, pain sucks, i guess we know that more than most people.
@Atatra I’d throw a heart emoji at you instead of a star if mastodon let me
@Atatra
Swap bone infection with gallbladder removal and yes.
I mean, the “diet and exercise” shit *does* help. It just doesn’t help noticeably.